Friday, November 30, 2007

For my Christmas Card!!! It took a little playing around, but I did it!! I hate being so indecisive about my Christmas cards.... I always end up making several different ones... Anyhow, here's what I came up with... I just love this moose from Whipper Snapper!! He's so stinkin' cute! I came up with the saying and thought it was perfect! Who knows, maybe there is a stamp out there that says this, but I thought it fit!

The Designer label was punched out with Vanilla CS and then I drew the outline of the punch in Artichoke. I shaded the circle and the holly leaves with Artichoke ink. The moose was stamped on white CS. The white didn't match the vanilla so I sponged Creamy Caramel around the moose...

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Oops! I meant Sleigh Balls! LOL. I'm starting to get more in the Christmas mood.. I decided that the worst part of making my cards is stamping the images out to color. Sooooo.... I spent all night last night stamping out images. With all my craft mess I *dread* digging something else out of the pile... so stamping alot of images at one time works for me! I spent last night coloring with my Prismacolor pencils... I used the Whipper Snapper Sleigh Balls stamp for this one. These snowballs are sooo cute!!

Monday, November 26, 2007

I'm really having a hard time getting into the Christmas mood! It just seems to come faster and faster every year. Are you in the mood? I just got out some Christmas decorations hoping to make it feel more like Christmas.

I still have yet to make up my mind about my Christmas cards! I gotta get busy on those...

I had my Snowbunny Bella out and decided to go purple with this card.... It's a little different.. Hope you like! I soooo wanted to put the little white and silver pom poms on the end of the silver cord. I just couldn't find a way to attach them! On the left inside part of the card the greeting was stamped using L Lilac marker using the Stamp-a-ma-jig. Then I used the snow flakes from Snow Burst around the greeting--they don't show up very well.... I used Almost Amethyst and Craft White.)... On the front of the card I tore the paper, sponged with Craft White, and Embossed with Irridescent Ice EP...Hope you like it!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

I broke out my new Snowbunny Bella today to stamp. I'm really liking this color combo. I am using the darker teal from Bazzill Bahama Trio CS.. And then I added SU Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean, and Night of Navy. The die cut snowflakes are from Cuttlebug's new 2 x 2 die. I added Dazzling Diamonds to them. I wish it would show up in the picture!!

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Here is a gift bag I just made.. This was really fun to make! I can remember a time when the only way I decorated one of these was to put a topper on the bag... *sigh*.. But this is so much nicer! There isn't much for stamping on this. In fact, its mostly die cuts! Here is what I used for this..

The snowflake on this was put throught the Xyron and then glittered with Dazzling Diamonds. The picture does not show it very well.... The mittens were glittered with Blue Brilliance and Dazzling Diamonds. I found the boa and the ribbon at Michaels. The back side of the bag also has the striped cardstock and the darke teal across the top. I thought it turned out really cute!!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Here is an idea for DVD tins... Because of the low price of these tins I bought quite a few of them. So this is a perfect idea to get more use out of them! I love the idea that my acrylic stamps can be stored so that I can see what the stamp is! The regular CD cases are smaller, so this makes it great to have with large size stamps. On this one I used both sides to store 2 different sets. I covered the front and the back respectively..

Friday, November 16, 2007

AACCKKKK! Things have been unbelievably hectic. Too many stressful things happening at once!! My family and I are house shopping.. In the middle of the Holidays no less. I'm also knee deep into my orientation at the hospital, and I'm worried about starting my Christmas shopping!! I haven't even started!! With everything going on its been really hard to find the time to stamp.. especially since I'm packing things. Soooo anyhow, today I received these FUN stamps by Whipper Snapper... I love them. I just hope I have time to use them.

Here is a dorky little card I made from SEI Doodley Doo holiday paper and rub-ons... With all the packing and other stuff going on I have had a hard time getting into the groove... Anyway, here's the card:

SU Certainly Celery

SEI Doodley Doo Holiday CS

SEI Doodley Doo Holiday rub-ons

SU Ribbon

SU Season of Joy

SU Always Artichoke

Just a note about this card.... I was the lucky recipient of rub-ons already adhered to the tissue! I thought for sure the rub-ons were ruined. I managed to pry them off the tissue and use them!! Amazing!!!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Here is another card I made with this adorable Whipper Snapper stamp. I haven't had much time to stamp lately! Christmas is just coming wayyy too fast for me! Anyway, here is the recipe for this little penguin card:

Sunday, November 4, 2007

I haven't had much time to play (again!)... So when I don't stamp, I start losing my mojo! I'm on the fence with this little card! I love the stamp--Whipper Snapper stamps are always too darn cute! There's lots of glitter on this card. Every snowflake has glitter.. It doesn't show up too well in the photo...